Early reviews for DC’s Suicide Squad are coming in as critics file their verdicts on the summer’s biggest film, which is apparently tracking at a huge $140 million opening Stateside (which will definitely beat Fox’s Deadpool).
We’ve had a look through and early signs aren’t great, but there are some more positive reviews scattered here and there. We don’t get to see the film until Thursday evening, and we’ll of course file our review as soon as humanly possible afterwards.
Here’s a selection of quotes we’ve found around the web. Judge for yourself which are good, and which aren’t so much.
Suicide Squad opens Friday.
“A puzzlingly confused undertaking that never becomes as cool as it thinks it is, Suicide Squad assembles an all-star team of supervillains and then doesn’t know what to do with them. The action of the film’s middle and latter stages is largely set in a gloomy murk that recalls far too many previous dour sci-fi/fantasy films, and by that point, vestiges of the opening stretch’s humor and snap long have fallen by the wayside. Suicide Squad may not quite commit harakiri, but it certainly feels like it’s taken far too many sleeping pills…”
“With Jared Leto playing Joker, the promise was of a return to the kind of storytelling found in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight. Sadly, that doesn’t prove to be the case at all…”
“Like Avengers Assemble forced through a Deadpool mangle, Suicide Squad gives new life to DC’s big-screen universe. So bad-to-the-bone it’s good.”
“Starts off flavourful, turns rather bland. This Injustice League jaunt proves that DC is still a long way behind Marvel for on-screen action…”
“The results feel undercooked and overstuffed, with ten pounds of supervillain backstory being crammed into a five-pound bag…”
“If you can believe it, Suicide Squad is even worse than Fantastic Four.”
